Succulent Piñata

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Succulent Piñata

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Our interest in the accumulation of rich vegetal and animal detritus surrounding our Gelatinous Orbs is articulated in human form with our project; Romulus and Remus a Succulent Pinata. The piñata merges sport with the narrative and imagery of Romulus and Remus being fed by the She-Wolf to produce an environment thick in childish anticipation and nourishing liquids. From the She-Wolf we get a mammalian body and protective posture, soft fur coat with tender and moist underbelly. This incorporates with the piñata to produce a more interactive and enticing game full of opportunity and various ways of accessing candy. We imagine a piñata whose mood moves beyond the festive and pleasurable acquiring succulent qualitiesthat belie the saccharine contents held within. It is imagined to be a fecund beast held captive above ogling children, their favorite substance suspended mere feet from their shortened grasps attracting other children like flies to her honey-dripping belly. The activities produced by such a decadent feast are as integral to our understanding of the object and its associated mood.The other aspect of the piñata that we find enticing is how the materiality of the object is understood through the visceral characteristics of the game. Since the game is about blindly cracking a shell to release an inner candy realm, strategy is related to material properties as understood through vision and touch (translated through a stick). The ability to understand an object through its imaginary and real destruction alters its legibility and mood. To heighten this experience we’ve developed additional features into the pinata’s morphology and altered its materiality to prolong the course of the game and create more satisfying and diverse breaking and tactile points. The piñata is layered and constructed with multiple materials ranging from soft outer coating to hard and brittle inner lining.

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Succulent Piñata

Succulent Piñata

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